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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs...
To: mrm@Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:24:38 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199704071834.LAA17852@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at Apr 7, 97 11:34:29 am
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In some mail from M.R.Murphy, sie said:
> 
> Are any of you folk actually doing an upgrade from somebody else's
> "here's how it ought to be" distribution of ANYTHING directly to
> a machine that you care about? Seems to me it would be crazy
> to do that :-)

Well, I've done a FreeBSD 2.1.6 -> 2.2.1 upgrade recently using the
"Upgrade" option under sysinstall.

I also apply patches to Solaris2 using their tools too.

But both of these are "blow-away" installations, if need be. When the
box you care about runs sunos4, there is no motivation to upgrade :-)

Darren